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Andrew Nusca / Between the Lines:
Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion — Dell says it has agreed to buy the IT services company Perot Systems for about $3.9 billion as it looks to expand beyond the PC business. — The Round Rock, Texas-based Dell said Monday that it will offer $30 per share in cash for Perot, which is based in Plano, Texas, 200 miles away.
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Associated Press:
Dell agrees to buy Perot Systems for about $3.6B — NEW YORK - — Dell Inc. says it has agreed to buy the information technology services company Perot Systems Corp. for about $3.6 billion as it looks to expand beyond the personal computer business. — The Round Rock, Texas PC company …
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Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion — Dell announced Monday that it will buy IT services provider Perot Systems for $3.9 billion. — The two companies expect to provide a broad range of IT services and solutions, expanding the global reach of Perot Systems, and selling Dell computer systems to additional Perot customers.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Pink and Microsoft Tablet (Take 2): A couple of updates — Project Pink and the rumored remake of a Microsoft Tablet are back on the rumor treadmill this weekend. — It's been quiet out there lately on both fronts. Here's a recap — plus a couple of small updates — that I've heard recently about these two skunk-works efforts.
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Robo.to TV Turns Status Messages Into Art — You know the viral “Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years”? Well, what if Noah took a 4-second video of himself instead? And what if everyone else did, too? That's kind of the effect you get from the new Robo.to TV service …
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Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:Robo.to: They're Watching the Social Web in Real Time - But Will It Pay?
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Micheal Lopez / The Official Google Blog:
A mysterious series for H.G. Wells — You might have noticed an unexplained set of doodles on the Google homepage and a couple tweets from our official Twitter stream, @google, over the last two weeks. On September 5th, we posted a doodle with the abduction of our second ‘o’ and a coded tweet …
Matthew Moore / Telegraph:
Gay men ‘can be identified by their Facebook friends’ — Homosexual men can be identified just by looking at their Facebook friends, according to unpublished research by two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. — The study found that it was possible to predict men's sexual orientation …
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Carolyn Y. Johnson / Boston Globe:Project ‘Gaydar’ — At MIT, an experiment identifies …
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Suzanne Vranica / Digits:
Yahoo's New Ad Pitch: 'It's You!' — and Jessica E. Vascellaro — Yahoo is planning to reintroduce its battered brand to the public Tuesday with a massive global marketing campaign, according to people familiar with the effort. … The Internet company's new tagline, according to one of those people: “It's You!”
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Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:
Apple Seeking More Info From iPhone 3.1 Users Reporting Poor Battery Life — An undisclosed number of users who have posted on Apple's discussion boards about poor battery life following the iPhone 3.1 software update are being contacted by AppleCare helpdesk with a hefty list of 11 follow-up questions.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Adobe Gets Into Widget Distribution And Advertising With Help From Gigya — Many of the widgets scattered across the Web are made in Flash, but Adobe doesn't participate in the widget economy. Today, it is taking a first tentative step towards changing that with the release …
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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Is Google giving Gmail back to the UK? — Four years ago, in October 2005, Google voluntarily renamed its Gmail service as ‘Google Mail’ in the UK. This was to avoid a trademark dispute with a British company called Independent International Investment Research.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
AT&T's 3G MicroCell does unlimited calling, but it ain't cheap — How much would you expect to pay to cover AT&T's dead zone using your own internet bandwidth? We appreciate that these guys can't blanket every nook and cranny with HSPA, but carriers need to understand that femtocells …
Sony Ericsson:
Sony Ericsson introduces a world first - the Motion Activated Headphones MH907 — Escape the ordinary - listen to your favourite music and receive calls without touching a button with the Motion Activated Headphones MH907. — Sony Ericsson today unveils the world's first ever motion activated headphones that sense the user.
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Andrew Yoon / Joystiq:
Square Enix head predicts new Wii in 2011, says motion ‘impact’ for Xbox, PlayStation will be ‘small’ — The new motion controllers for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are likely to make big appearances at this year's Tokyo Game Show. While both Microsoft and Sony are attempting to take away …
TechCrunch:
What Have VCs Really Done for Innovation? — This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @vwadhwa.
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